There was a strange bright object handing in the sky over Albuquerque on Saturday evening, around 7:00pm. The VERY quickly disseminated story was that it was a high altitude weather balloon. It was stationary for the over 15 minutes I watched it. Since they test all sorts of stuff out here I thought the story was a little fishy. Do weather balloon hang motionless in the sky for long periods of time?

***Do weather balloon hang motionless in the sky for long periods of time?***

Yes. So does swamp gas. Nothing to see here, citizen, just go back to your house and draw the shades. We were not here, we did not visit you. Enjoy your day. When you wake, you will not remember what happened. Ignore the pain in your buttocks. It is nothing.

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posted on 09/24/2012 4:43:27 PM PDT
by irishtenor
(Everything in moderation, however, too much whiskey is just enough... Mark Twain)

In springfield, mo a couple of years ago my son, his friend and I saw a light hovering and weaving silently but low enough if it had been a helo we would have heard it because I am a military helo/jet freak and always run out of the house day or night to watch. I love them.

After the disposal of ben lady in Pakistan I figured it was the new stealth helo. Its as loud as a lawn mower so we would not have heard it. Just an idea. Got to see the stealth fighter & bomber in a flyover a couple of times out there before the wars. Unforgettable.

A ballon can float motionless, can appear bright from the reflected sun.

This does NOT mean I don’t believe in UFOs.

The question about a UFO is what is the source of the craft?

Keep in mind the SR-71A was a well kept secret for 30 years. It had characteristics (and appearances) and flight capability that would surely have seemed like alien technology in 1964.

So, there ARE UFOs, they belong to US.

If there were a real alien, who could traverse the universe, the only craft of his we would see would be the on he visits the zoo in, because we would be so far behind them we would be considered basically not interesting.....

Why are we so vain as to think any other intelligence would beat a path to our door?

You have possibly witnessed a visit by entites not of this world, and there is no need for consensus on what you saw.

I don’t think we should dismiss the existence of aliens. They definitely have much higher intelligence than we do. Look no further than their transportation: undetectable by any of our equipment, coming into our dimension with ease and in complete silence. Compare that to the efforts and massive rockets we had to employ in order to reach other planets.

I don’t know what to think of these supposedly ufo sightings.
Many photos I’ve seen look like a “bright white” object too. I guess a camera phone can’t capture things clearly from such a distance.
A Japanese friend, who is very sane & sober, told me once that she along with a number of people while sitting in a restaurant in Osaka Japan, all saw two objects in the sky moving very quickly across the sky, then suddenly stopping motionless mid-air, and then making extraordinarily rapid vertical moves (straight up & down) unlike anything that a balloon or an airplane, we generally know of, can make, and then suddenly disappearing. Completely silent, no engine sound...So, don’t know...
I suppose in many cases, there is a ‘logical’ explanation, e.g. weather balloons, fabricated stories/hoaxes, or some other phenomenon..

That isn’t ‘my site’. I watched the interview and found the interviewee compelling. Watching the man while being interviewed, I saw no signs of deceptiuon/deceptive behavior. Have you ever studied the meta communication of lying? The man being interviewed was not lying, he was telling what he believes is the truth of what he witnessed at five years old. I happen to remember things from when I was two, so five is not that impossible, especially when the experience was so dramatic ...

Did seem kinda weird that folds on the radio were almost immediately (while it was going on) telling us that it was only a weather balloon.

Here in New Mexico there is a lot of testing of vehicles that aren’t, let’s say, fully unclassified. Sometimes these tests don’t go as planned and the damage control folks appear telling us “nothing to see here, move along, move along...”

This felt like one of those times.

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posted on 12/17/2012 8:35:07 AM PST
by Crusher138
("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")

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